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All the hospitals included in the foregoing table are fully equipped
for operative surgery on modern lines. Each of them .also provides
special departments for X-ray investigation, dental, ophthalmic, massage
and pathological work.
MATERNITY AND NURSING HOMES.
There is no Municipal Maternity or Nursing Home in the Borough.
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HEALTH VISITORS.
Duties.—The duties allotted to the Health Visitors are as follows :—
1.To visit the homes of all newly-born children amongst the
working classes within 21 days after birth, and subsequently as
circumstances dictate.
2.To visit the homes and make investigations in regard to stillbirths
and infant deaths.
3.To visit and give advice to parents in cases of ophthalmia,
zymotic enteritis and other diseases causing deaths amongst infants.
4.To visit and report upon all cases of puerperal fever and
puerperal pyrexia.
5.To investigate, when required, homes in which overcrowding
is alleged to exist.
6.To investigate, when required, applications for the supply of
milk free or below cost price.
7.To co-ordinate their efforts with those of the voluntary workers
attached to the Maternity and Child Welfare organizations in the
Borough.
8.To investigate cases under the Widows', Orphans' and Old
Age Contributory Pensions Acts where the children are under school
age.
Work of the Health Visitors.—The following tabular statement
(Table No. 26) gives, an outline of the work of the Health Visitors and
of the Chelsea Health Society and School for Mothers during the past
two years. The visits enumerated are those paid by the trained officer
of the Borough Council (one part-time Health Visitor) and the trained
officers of the Chelsea Health Society and School for Mothers (two
whole-time and two part-time Health Visitors). It does not include work
done by voluntary workers attached to the Society.